Distributing Freight Units

To distribute a freight unit over two containers for example, you move the items you want from one container to the other by using drag and drop in the sea freight booking. A symbol shows that the forwarding order is distributed across several containers or sea freight bookings. This function is available for packages, product and container items, however not for container items that already exist in the forwarding order.

You can use this function if you get a message from the warehouse saying that a freight unit was loaded into two containers. However, this is advisable only for LCL orders (LCL = Less Than Container Load) with FCL freight bookings, that is when you have defined your containers in your sea freight booking. If the system has copied the container from the preceding document, such as a forwarding order, it is not advisable to use this function. This is the case when the shipper has made a fixed order for a container in an FCL scenario (FCL = Full Container Load).

If you add a new package or product item to a forwarding order, the system assigns these automatically to the main container in the sea freight booking. The main container is the container to which the freight unit was originally assigned. If you move the entire content of the main container to a different container in the sea freight booking, then this automatically becomes the main container. If a container comprises a package item at top-level and a lower-level product item, you can only move the package item. If the container only comprises a product item at top level, you can move this.

Splitting Partial Quantities

If you get a message from the warehouse saying that a freight unit did not fit into a unit load device during loading, for example, and that a partial quantity was therefore loaded to another ULD, you can enter this information into the air freight booking manually. To do so, change the amount of the relevant item and then move the item to the desired ULD using Drag&Drop. A symbol shows that the item is distributed across multiple unit load devices. The system does not copy amounts and weights automatically. You need to adjust them manually.

You can split partial quantities as often as required.

When you enter the actual amounts in a freight order or freight booking, the system updates the actual amounts in the item of the related freight unit only when you have entered all items in the freight order or freight booking.

After a split, the system does not copy changes to the business document (for example, the forwarding order) to the related freight bookings.

You can undo the split by moving the split item back to its original position by using Drag&Drop. In this case, the changes to the business document are copied back to the freight booking automatically.

You cannot delete a split item. In this case, the system splits the related freight unit. The freight unit for the split quantity automatically receives the status Unplanned.

The splitting of partial quantities plays an important role in transit warehousing, for example. For more information, see Transit Warehousing.

Delete Items

If one or more items (container, package or product item) cannot be transported with a freight order or freight booking, you can delete these items from the freight order or freight booking. This makes sense when a pallet remains in the container freight station because the container is full. Here the following situations can arise:

Constraints:

If you delete a container that you have created directly in the freight booking, in other words, the container is not an item in the corresponding forwarding orders, the system moves the items in the container up a level into the freight booking. To be able to execute the freight booking, you must reassign these items to a container.

The corresponding forwarding order is displayed at item level.